Celebrate Veterans Day By Reading U.S. Military Veterans' Books

You can support our U.S. military veterans this year on Veterans Day (Nov. 11, 2016) by reading their books.  Lazy Saturday Reads has pulled together a number of book titles written by military veterans.  Check them out.

Read Books By U.S. Military Veterans

If you like epic fantasy, I highly recommend Dragon's Trail, written by Joseph Malik.  Superb fantasy world-building, sword fighting, action, and spy thriller.  Follow the link and buy Dragon's Trail for only 99 cents today through Monday, Nov. 14, 2016.

170 Sci-fi & Fantasy EBooks & Box Sets

170+ Sci-fi & Fantasy EBooks & Box Sets

If you're looking for cool new sci-fi or fantasy books, Patty Jansen has a big book promotion this weekend (Nov. 5-6, 2016) with more than 170 eBooks and box sets you can buy for only 99 cents each from Amazon, iTunes, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, and Google Play.  Follow the link and scroll down a bit to click on the link to your favorite online eBook store.

Patty usually has a large eBook sale at big discounts or links to lots of free eBooks every month.  If you want to be notified of these events, join her mailing list.  (Just follow the link above and type your email address on the right side of the web page.)  You can also get notified of other author-run promotions by checking the "Ebookaroo" box when you submit your email address.

Free Sci-fi and Fantasy EBooks!

Looking for new Sci-fi and Fantasy authors to read?  Patty Jansen has another book promotion this weekend (Oct. 1 & 2, 2016) with more than 100 free eBooks you can download from Amazon, iTunes, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, and Google Play.  Follow the link and scroll down a bit to click on the link to your favorite online eBook store.

Patty usually has a large eBook sale or links to lots of free eBooks every month.  If you want to be notified of these events, join her mailing list.  (Just follow the link above and type your email address on the right side of the web page.)  You can also get notified of other author-run promotions by checking the "Ebookaroo" box when you submit your email address.

More Than 120 Sci-fi & Fantasy eBooks on Sale For 99 Cents Each Sept. 3-4, 2016

More than 120 eBooks & box sets on sale for 99 cents each!

Are you looking for sci-fi or fantasy books written by new authors?  Patty Jansen has a big book promotion this weekend (Sept. 3-4, 2016) with more than 120 eBooks and box sets you can buy for only 99 cents each from Amazon, iTunes, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, and Google Play.  Follow the link and scroll down a bit to click on the link to your favorite online eBook store.

Patty usually has a large eBook sale at big discounts or links to lots of free eBooks every month.  If you want to be notified of these events, join her mailing list.  (Just follow the link above and type your email address on the right side of the web page.)  You can also get notified of other author-run promotions by checking the "Ebookaroo" box when you submit your email address.

More Than 125 Free Sci-fi, Fantasy, Dystopian, & Horror eBooks & Box Sets

Get Great Free eBooks!

Once again, Patty Jansen has another book promotion going this weekend (Aug. 6-7, 2016) with more than 125 free eBooks you can download from Amazon, iTunes, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, and Google Play.  Follow the link and scroll down a bit to click on the link to your favorite online eBook store.

Patty usually has a large eBook sale or links to lots of free eBooks every month.  If you want to be notified of these events, join her mailing list.  (Just follow the link above and type your email address on the right side of the web page.)  You can also get notified of other author-run promotions by checking the "Ebookaroo" box when you submit your email address.

Harry Potter & The Cursed Child on Sale July 31, 2016

If you didn't get a chance to pre-order your copy of the script for the play Harry Potter & The Cursed Child that I mentioned back in February, it's now on sale!  It's $14.99 for the eBook edition and $17.98 for the hardcover.

After reading the reviews, I can see many die-hard fans were disappointed when they read this script.  Beloved characters spoke and acted waaay out of character, but readers reported that they really enjoyed the new characters, like Harry's youngest son, Albus Potter, and his best friend (!) Scorpius Malfoy.  At the end of the day, Harry's story has already been told in the first seven books, according to J.K. Rowling, so this story should really be about the new characters.

If the play ever comes to a nearby theatre here in the U.S., I think I'd like to see it.  In the meantime, I'm eagerly awaiting Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them on November 18th!

More Than 100 Free Sci-fi, Fantasy, Dystopian, & Horror eBooks & Box Sets

Patty Jansen has another book promotion going this weekend (June 4-5, 2016) with more than 100 free eBooks you can download from Amazon, iTunes, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, and Google Play.  Follow the link and scroll down a bit to click on the link to your favorite online store.

Patty usually has a large eBook sale or links to lots of free eBooks every month.  If you want to be notified of these events, join her mailing list.  (Just follow the above link and type your email address on the right side of the web page.)

More than 150 Fantasy, Sci-fi, & Horror eBooks & Box Sets on Sale For 99 Cents Each!

This weekend, May 7-8, 2016, Patty Jansen has a super sale going on with more than 150 fantasy, sci-fi, and horror eBooks and box sets for 99 cents each.  Take a look!

Harry Potter And The Cursed Child Available for Pre-order

The 8th installment of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, is a two-part play scheduled to open at the Palace Theatre, in London, England, on July 30, 2016.  J.K. Rowling didn't write the play, but Jack Thorne did.  But don't go thinking that J.K. Rowling didn't influence it.  The play is based upon a story by author J.K. Rowling, Thorne, and director John Tiffany, so Jo did have a hand in it.

Since most Harry Potter fans won't have a chance to see the play in London, Pottermore and Arthur A. Levine (an imprint of Scholastic) are publishing an early version of the script on July 31, 2016, the day after the play opens.  Coincidentally (not really!) that's J.K. Rowling's and Harry Potter's birthday.  While the script isn't published yet, you can pre-order it now in hardcover for $17.99 or Kindle eBook for $14.99.

J.K. Rowling has said in the past that she wouldn't write another Harry Potter tale.  (Immediately followed by "Never say 'Never!'")  She also said in September 2007 that she was working on a Harry Potter encyclopedia that could take up to 10 years.  We haven't heard of this encyclopedia in years, but she has written articles for the Harry Potter universe and character histories, including more than 19,000 new words added to Pottermore.com.  I think it's likely that the published encyclopedia itself will never come about, but Harry Potter fans worldwide can enjoy the free encyclopedic articles online at Pottermore.com.

Feb. 2016 Author Earnings Report Is Posted

Each quarter, Hugh Howey and David the Data Guy crawl the Amazon.com website to gather data on Amazon Kindle eBook sales to determine how much money authors, publishers, and Amazon earn from daily eBook sales.  This quarter, they've also managed to gather data for print and audio book sales.

In one day in January 2016, Amazon.com customers purchased about 909,000 Kindle eBooks and downloaded the equivalent of 155,000 Kindle eBooks as Kindle Unlimited borrows, spending about $5,755,000 a day, which earns authors about $1,756,000 a day.  In one year at this rate, consumers will spend $2.1 billion, and authors will earn about $641 million.

Of particular note, Hugh and Data Guy have taken nearly a million data points to calibrate the sales rank to daily unit sales.  By looking at the chart below, you can see how many sales it takes to reach a rank and to maintain that rank.

For example, if your Kindle eBook were sitting at the 600,000 rank because it hadn't sold any copies in a few days and you ran a 99 cent promotion and sold 24 eBook copies, you can expect to reach the rank of about 10,000.  If your eBook then sold 12 copies each day for the next several days, it would maintain a rank of about 10,000.

Thank you, Hugh and Data Guy, for doing all the hard work to bring us all this info!